Thursday, March 5, 2015

Floriography Quilt Finale

Floriography is defined as 'the language of flowers.'

In times past, sending certain flowers referenced specific things, possibly secret messages or hidden meaning. We've heard of the different meanings of rose colors. Yellow for friendship, red for true love, and so on. Flowers mark milestones in our lives today, and I love both sending and receiving. Give me a bouquet of mixed wild flowers any day over roses, though. I'm all about color, you know?

When I heard a relative was having a baby girl, I had just the thing. A beautiful stack of Riley Blake Floriography waiting to be stitched into a quilt.

You can see some pictures in the sewing process here. I used 5 more solids in the blue to green palette, and I think it did the trick to highlight the prints. The pattern was simple, and yet different. I found it by making all those Log Cabin blocks in this post Playing With Blocks. Playing is good for discovery.

I was after the effect of a mixed bouquet.

The backing is a beautiful 100% cotton gingham, which is find is tough to come by. My local quilt shop had it!

The thread is Aurifil no.2425 in

50 wt.in pink.

My all time favorite color!

Aurifil thread is a dream to work with.

I think the thread gave such gorgeous texture!

This was stitched on my Janome 8200QC Memory Craft.

Now all I need to do is label it, wrap it, and send it on its way east where they're waiting on the baby.

I get excited about colorful+creative textiles, quilting & improvisational design. Making fabric is just as thrilling as using it! Join me in my studios, and on both blogs while I cut, stitch, dye, paint, and print my way through life. There's always something new to investigate here! Contact me at julie@pinkdoxies.com

Such a beautiful quilt. I love the colours and the pink gingham backing and am so impressed by the actual quilting - stunning. That's one lucky baby! Love the bird footprints in the snow - it looks like they've been dancing! x

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